Canada's largest diaspora-driven vehicle route, with vehicles moving from Canadian ports to Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Cameroon year-round. Each country has its own customs quirks: Nigeria's Form M, Ghana's G-CAP, Senegal's age limit, Cameroon's high duty rate.
Nine checks before you send a deposit to any vehicle shipper, how to verify the company legally exists, why an insurance certificate from a forwarder may be worthless, and the silence test that catches problems weeks early.
Togo applies no vehicle age limit, which makes Lomé the realistic destination for an older car Ghana would penalise heavily, often a larger saving than the entire ocean freight bill. Plus the Sahel transit corridor.
Costs, transit times, paperwork, and the common mistakes that cost first-time shippers thousands. Everything you need to know to ship a vehicle from Canada to Lagos, Tin Can, or Port Harcourt.
Real costs from Montreal to Tema or Takoradi, GRA duty math (~50% of CIF combined), the 10-year age limit with overage penalty bands, G-CAP inspection, and the 5 mistakes that delay clearance.
Real costs from Montreal to Port of Dakar, Senegal's strict 3-year age limit for personal-use vehicles, COSEC royalty, customs duty math, and the mistakes that delay clearance.
Real costs to Port of Douala, how Cameroon's combined duty stacks up on older vehicles, the ANOR Certificate of Conformity requirement, SGS pre-shipment inspection, and the documentation gaps that lock cargo at port.
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